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In this fascinating, accessible introduction to one of the most revolutionary developments in modern physics, Einstein scholar Banesh Hoffmann recounts the successive insights that led to both the special and general theories of relativity. Using…

This second edition of Introduction to Cosmology is an exciting update of an award-winning textbook. It is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students in physics and astronomy, but is also useful as a supplementary text at higher levels. It…

Hoe vind je de Poolster? Wat zijn eigenlijk planeten? En welk sterrenbeeld wordt ook wel het Noorderkruis genoemd? De antwoorden op deze en andere vragen vind je in dit leuke natuurdoeboek. Neem het mee op je ontdekkingstocht en leer een heleboel…

Discovering the Solar System Barrie W. Jones The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Discovering the Solar System is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the Solar System and of the ways in which the various bodies have been investigated and…

An introduction to astronomy for students of astronomy or physics and the general science reader. This book is illustrated in full colour throughout and includes satellite photographs, many of them taken by NASA. It also provides the reader with…

This book is well-regarded for its unified treatment of macroscopic and molecular level phenomena and the interrelationship between the two. In this edition Barrow has extensively revised the thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and spectroscopy…

The author chronicles the search for . . . a theory to explain all natural fields and their interaction with particles. . . . Lives and contributions of physicists and cosmologists, starting with the pioneers of scientific cosmology in the 19th…

The year was 1889. The French physicist-mathematician Henry T Poincare could not believe his eyes. He had worked for months on one of the most famous problems in science-the problem of three bodies moving around one another under mutual gravitational…